Modbus Tcp Binding

Documentation of the Modbus TCP binding Bundle

Introduction

The modbus TCP binding polls the bus in an configurable interval for a configurable length.

For installation of the binding, please see Wiki page Bindings.

Details

Binding Configuration

add to ${openhab_home}/configuration/

Modbus binding allows to connect to multiple Modbus slaves as TCP master. This implementation works with coils (boolean values) only. Entries in openhab config file should look like below. Most of config parameters are related to specific slaves, the only exception is

 modbus:poll=<value>

which sets refresh interval to Modbus polling service. Value is in milliseconds - optional, default is 200

 modbus:<slave-type>.<slave-name>:<slave-parameter>

 <slave-type> can be either "tcp" or "serial"
 <slave-name> is unique name per slave you are connecting to.
 <slave-parameter> are pairs key=value

Valid keys are

connection	mandatory	for tcp connection use form host_ip[:port] e.g. 192.168.1.55 or 192.168.1.55:511. If you omit port, default 502 will be used. For serial connections use just COM port name
id	optional	slave id, default 1
start	optional	slave start address, default 0
length	mandatory?	number of data item to read, default 0 (but set it to something meaningful :)
type	mandatory	data type, can be either "coil", "discrete", "holding", "input" or "register", now only "coil", "discrete", "holding" and "input" are supported

Modbus read functions

• type=coil uses function 1,
• type=discrete uses function is 2,
• type=holding uses function is 3,
• type=input uses function ist 4

Modbus write functions

• type=coil uses function 5,
• type=holding uses function is 6, see also http://www.simplymodbus.ca

with type=holding and type=input you can now only operate with datatype byte!!! see point 4 below

Minimal construction in openhab.config will look like (for TCP connection)

modbus:tcp.slave1.connection=192.168.1.50
modbus:tcp.slave1.length=10
modbus:tcp.slave1.type=coil

connects to slave at ip=192.168.1.50 and reads 10 coils starting from address 0 More complex setup could look like

modbus:tcp.slave1.connection=192.168.1.50:502
modbus:tcp.slave1.id=41
modbus:poll=300
modbus:tcp.slave1.start=0
modbus:tcp.slave1.length=32
modbus:tcp.slave1.type=coil

example for an moxa e1214 module in simple io mode 6 output switches starting from modbus address 0 and 6 inputs from modbus address 10000 (the function 2 implizits the modbus 10000 address range) you only read 6 input bits and say start from 0 the moxa manual ist not right clear in this case

modbus:poll=300

modbus:tcp.slave1.connection=192.168.6.180:502
modbus:tcp.slave1.id=1
modbus:tcp.slave1.start=0
modbus:tcp.slave1.length=6
modbus:tcp.slave1.type=coil

modbus:tcp.slave2.connection=192.168.6.180:502
modbus:tcp.slave2.id=1
modbus:tcp.slave2.start=0
modbus:tcp.slave2.length=6
modbus:tcp.slave2.type=discrete

modbus:tcp.slave3.connection=192.168.6.180:502
modbus:tcp.slave3.id=1
modbus:tcp.slave3.start=17
modbus:tcp.slave3.length=2
modbus:tcp.slave3.type=input

modbus:tcp.slave4.connection=192.168.6.181:502
modbus:tcp.slave4.id=1
modbus:tcp.slave4.start=33
modbus:tcp.slave4.length=2
modbus:tcp.slave4.type=holding

here we use the same modbus gateway with ip 192.168.6.180 twice on different modbus address ranges and modbus functions

NOTE: the moxa e1200 modules give by reading with function 02 from start=0 the content of register 10000 aka DI-00, an reading with function code 1 gives the address 00000 this is a little bit scary, reading from other plc can be different!

Item Binding Configuration

ModbusBindingProvider provides binding for Openhab Items There are two ways to bind an item to modbus coils/registers

1. single coil/register per item

   Switch MySwitch "My Modbus Switch" (ALL) {modbus="slave1:5"}

This binds MySwitch to modbus slave defined as "slave1" in openhab.config reading/writing to the coil 5

2. separate coils for reading and writing

   Switch MySwitch "My Modbus Switch" (ALL) {modbus="slave1:<6:>7"} In this case coil 6 is used as status coil (readonly) and commands are put to coil 7 by setting coil 7 to true. Your hardware should then set coil 7 back to false to allow further commands processing.

3. input coil only for reading

   Contact Contact1 "Contact1 [MAP(en.map):%s]" (All) {modbus="slave2:0"} In this case regarding to moxa example coil 0 is used as discrete input (in Moxa naming DI-00)

following examples are relatively useless, if you know better one let us know! counter values in most cases 16bit values, now we must do math: in rules to deal with them ...

4. read write byte register

   Number Dimmer1 "Dimmer1 [%d]" (ALL) {modbus="slave4:0"} and in sitemap

   Setpoint item=Dimmer1 minValue=0 maxValue=100 step=5 NOTE: if the value goes over a byte this case is fully untested!!! this example should write the value to all DO bits of an moxa e1212 as byte value

5. read only byte register type=input

   Number MyCounterH "My Counter high [%d]" (All) {modbus="slave3:0"} this reads counter 1 high word

   Number MyCounterL "My Counter low [%d]" (All) {modbus="slave3:1"} this reads counter 1 low word